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- Obama and the Great Game - February 13, 2009
- Earlier, there was talk of 30,000, bringing the U.S. total to 63,000. Now, there are reports Obama may commit no more than the three brigades promised in...
- 'Buy American' -- or Bye-Bye America - February 10, 2009
- As Brown pleaded from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Britain must not retreat into "protectionism," strikes spread to Scotland, Wales...
- The Distemper of the Times - February 6, 2009
- In Mexico, according to Forbes, "the media and the masses long have held a sneaking suspicion that there is something shady about Slim. He is described as a...
- Democrats' New Deal: This is It? - February 3, 2009
- While the debate is endless over whether the New Deal ended the Depression or caused it to endure until World War II spending pulled us out of the ditch, few...
- Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism - January 30, 2009
- Are we deluding ourselves? Worldwide, the mightiest force of the 20th century, ethnonationalism -- that creator and destroyer of nations and empires; that...
- A Bibi-Barack Collision? - January 27, 2009
- In 1982, after an attempted assassination of their ambassador in London, Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon drove through Lebanon to Beirut, shelling the city...
- A Neo-Reaganite Inaugural - January 23, 2009
- A first sign this was not to be another windy progressive spiel came with his statement that our crisis is due not just to the "greed and irresponsibility"...
- Is GOP Still a National Party? - January 20, 2009
- In the National Journal, Ron Brownstein renders a grim prognosis of the party's chances of recapturing the White House. Consider: In the five...
- Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up? - January 17, 2009
- The crowd loved it. Here is the background. After intense negotiations with Britain and France, Secretary of State Rice had persuaded the...
- An Unreflective Man - January 13, 2009
- He denounced protectionism, as he has with dismissive contempt since he went to New Hampshire a decade ago. But nowhere in his defense of free trade was...
- Obama's Choice: FDR or Reagan - January 9, 2009
- FDR's answer: vast federal spending, tough new regulations on business and higher taxes -- like Herbert Hoover before him, only more so. The...
- Wasn't That a Time? - January 8, 2009
- To those of us in grade school in Washington in the 1940s, Sammy Baugh was already a living legend. A first-string all-American at Texas...
- There's Something About Harry - January 6, 2009
- Saturday, however, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, in a story sourced to the governor's office, that Reid personally phoned Blago on Dec. 3, six days before...
- Blago Raises the Stakes - January 2, 2009
- This appointment "will not stand," raged Majority Leader Harry Reid. If the distinguished 71-year-old lawyer arrives to take his seat, Reid...
- Bush, Obama and the Gaza Blitz - December 30, 2008
- About Israel's right and duty to defend its border towns, there is no dispute. When Hamas permits Gaza to be used as a launch pad for rockets, it must expect...
- George Bush, Protectionist - December 26, 2008
- Indeed, Toyota claims losses for the first time in 70 years -- though how Toyota's management was able to keep sales up in 1945, when Gen. Curtis LeMay's...
- On the Death of Deep Throat - December 23, 2008
- But the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI in the later Nixon years, lately exposed as "Deep Throat," the source for the Woodward-Bernstein...
- Obama's War - December 19, 2008
- So critical is the situation that Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Kandahar last week, promised rapid deployment, before any Taliban spring offensive, of...
- The Toyota Republicans - December 16, 2008
- The $14 billion loan to the Big Three that Republican senators filibustered to death is just 2 percent of the $700 billion the Senate voted to bail out Wall...
- Wallowing Again - December 12, 2008
- "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening. ... And as I said, it is a sad day for Illinois. Beyond...
- In Earmarks Lies Salvation? - December 9, 2008
- This is the natural behavior of people responsible for others in an economic storm of the magnitude of the category 4 hurricane heading our way. Yet, to see...
- Can This Marriage Last? - December 5, 2008
- Second, unlike Dennis Kucinich, Ted Kennedy, Ron Paul or Jesse Helms, Hillary and Barack are pragmatists. They do not let ideology or past insults get in the...
- Will the Terrorists Succeed Again? - December 2, 2008
- Strategically, the assassination succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its Black Hand plotters. Hard-liners in Austria demanded an ultimatum to...
- Socialist Republic - November 28, 2008
- We are all Keynesians now. Thus, we have the $700 billion Bush bank bailout, the $700 billion "stimulus package" Obama wants by inauguration to...
- Meeting Medvedev Halfway - November 25, 2008
- Medvedev had painted Obama into a corner. No new American president can be seen as backing down from a Russian challenge. Three days later,...
- Who Killed Detroit? - November 21, 2008
- As far back as the 1950s, an intellectual elite that produces mostly methane had its knives out for the auto industry of which Ike's treasury secretary,...
- As GM Goes, So Goes the GOP - November 18, 2008
- Now we hear from Paulson that the $700 billion Congress voted will not, after all, be used to buy up all that rotten paper on the books of the big banks....
- Bretton Woods II -- No Way - November 14, 2008
- Our European friends seem positively giddy about this weekend's meeting in Washington, where they hope to impose upon us a new world economic order like the...
- China's Path to Power - November 11, 2008
- Following Hamiltonian precepts, the United States grew from 13 rural and agricultural colonies into the greatest industrial power in all history, producing...
- Why Did John McCain Lose? - November 7, 2008
- Sixty-two percent of the nation thought the economy was the No. 1 issue, and 93 percent thought the economy was bad. Two-thirds of the nation thought the war...
- But Where Did Bush Go Wrong? - November 4, 2008
- But while John McCain and others have deplored the Bush failures, what, exactly, did he do wrong? What were the policy blunders to which Republicans...
- Comrade Obama? - October 31, 2008
- A steeply graduated income tax has always been the preferred weapon of the left for bringing about socialist equality. Indeed, in the "Communist Manifesto"...
- Obama's First 100 Days - October 28, 2008
- Leading now by eight points in an average of national polls, Barack Obama has other advantages. Not a single blue state is regarded as imperiled or even...
- Camp Followers - October 24, 2008
- Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama: "Mark my words. It will...
- Tribal Politics - October 21, 2008
- For what else is there about this freshman senator, who has no significant legislative accomplishment, to transform our politics and to electrify the world,...
- The Coming Backlash - October 18, 2008
- Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of the Senate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president's mansion is headed Joe...
- Liquidating the Empire - October 14, 2008
- America's first trillion-dollar deficit is at hand. In Fiscal Year 2008 the deficit was $438 billion. With tax revenue sinking, we will...
- Can McCain Still Win? - October 10, 2008
- Since mid-September, the stock market has cratered, losing half of the $8 trillion that has vanished since October 2007. All five of America's great...
- Of Generals and Victories - October 7, 2008
- Familiar to every graduate of West Point, the words are from the farewell address of Gen. MacArthur, to Congress on April 19, 1951, after he was relieved of...
- Can the MARs Save McCain? - October 3, 2008
- Then the House, in an astounding act of defiance, voted to kill the bill, triggering a trillion-dollar run on Wall Street. Working with Democrats...